Here's the thing. And as the resident shit stirer you should be able to understand this one.

Perhaps Ezra was trying to show how music can be subversive without even trying. I seriously doubt that the music director realized that he was putting a song about pot out to a public that otherwise wouldn't have thought twice about it.

I posted what I did because the speech they gave before singing the song filled in the things that Ezra didn't say about it.

I'm not telling you anything you don't already know but a good soundtrack can make a good movie or a TV show into a great one. Music can be just as important to the success of the show as the visuals. This was never more true than for the music composed by Dominic Frontiere for the original OUTER LIMITS.

The wild imagination of the shows really stimulated Frontiere's creativity. He had access to a 44 piece studio orchestra plus he was one of the first muscians to incoporate electronic effects into the music. The show ran from 1962 to 1963 (a mere one and a half seasons!), years before anything like a commercially available synthesizer was on the market. Some of the music is quite modernistic and spooky, some is just drop dead gorgeous. He could write lush, beautiful melodies without a trace of cloying sentimentality. Frontiere could realy write well for the harp and tuned percussion.

La La Land records has released a 3 CD set that includes the original remastered in-studio sessions where the majority of the music was recorded in suites that contained most of the cues that were used through out the run of the show. It also contains the famous Control Voice sequences done by great character actor Vic Perrin.

Great stuff. Check it out if this is your thing.

“We must not always talk in the marketplace,” Hester Prynne said, “of what happens to us in the forest.”-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Frank, you will no doubt be pleased to hear that I have When The Man Comes Around as my ring tone on my cell phone. And as a back up I have Hurt as covered by Cash. He was a legend and will be sorely missed.